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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stuart Heritage

An anti-woke nightmare! Why the Fawlty Towers remake is a truly nauseating idea

The original Fawlty Towers cast (from left) Prunella Scales, John Cleese, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs
And then there was one … Of the original Fawlty Towers cast, (from left) Prunella Scales, John Cleese, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs, only Cleese will appear in the reboot. Photograph: BBC/PA

Have you spent the last day or so with an unexplainable stomach ache? A sort of drifting queasiness that rolls in out of nowhere and destabilises you? Me too. And I think I know why. I think it’s because John Cleese is rebooting Fawlty Towers.

It has been reported that Cleese, along with his daughter, Camilla, will write a new version of Fawlty Towers in which Basil Fawlty runs a boutique hotel while attempting to “navigate the modern world”. Rob Reiner is also involved and, oh God, there goes my stomach again.

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